Are you safely sitting at home writing poetry? Making Art? Writing down your memoirs? Do you need help filling your time with a productive activity? We here at the NCHS are committed to recording/preserving history and making our library archives accessible to future...

Design Challenge The NCHS relishes in the opportunity to work with school kids in the Napa County. Over the years our scavenger hunts have brought kids into the Goodman Library building for introductions to archives, the history of the Luther Turton building, and...

Part of the damage the NCHS received during the 2014 earthquake impacted one of our crowd favorite documents. The 1915 County Map was oftentimes a point of reference our staff would present to visitors daily at the Goodman Library. Now, five years after the fact we...

While the Goodman Library undergoes repairs from the 2014 earthquake, the Napa County Historical Society is operating out of the old office building at Tulocay Cemetery. Our office is open Monday-Wednesday-Friday, 10am-4pm. Here’s a fun fact! The Goodman Library is...

Recently, NCHS had the privilege of watching Scott Sedgley receive an award from the Conference of California Historical Societies. The CCHS held its annual symposium in Southern California on June 25, 2016, and Sedgley was honored with an Award of Merit for his...

On April 14-16, 2016, Napa County Historical Society hosted its fourth annual Napa Valley History Tour. This year we shook things up a bit with some new sites and activities. On the first day we offered guided tours of the Ackerman Heritage House, formerly known as...